Formy trybu przypuszczającego (warunkowego) w wypowiedziach dzieci w wieku przedszkolnym

Abstract

The category of mood is an expression of the speaker’s attitude towards the content he/ she puts into words connected with ‘truthfulness’. It represents the modal component of the semantic structure of a sentence. The author analyzes forms of subjunctive mood used by children at the age of five and six. Expressing the possible states refers both to the real and imagined worlds. Investigative games make children use many utterances including morphological expressions of modality to inform about hypothetical phenomena. The teacher’s conversation with children makes a special discourse, an argumentative text. Children’s utterances are to account for their knowledge of causal-effective relationships. They prove the skill of logical thinking and inference as well as the very fact of potential changes in reality. Talking about imagined things also allowed to involve axiological and emotional strategies in a conversation. Every sort of sentence that is produced with a particular intention expresses a will that is connected with different types of modality. Using forms of subjunctive mood children want to direct the speaker’s will at himself/ herself, the performer of an action, the object of a wish. Children also express their wills and wishes in this way. Encouragements, invitations, and requests can take a form of subjunctive mood as well.